Ok. Real stupid question, but here goes. Is New Guinea Papuan part of Austrila? Just found my grandfathers discharge papers and it says he served there during WW2. I have never heard of that place. thanks in advance.
2007-01-20 18:29:54 · 14 answers · asked by carriec 7 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
I know that he also served in Brisbane. He was with the Army Air corps. I have TONS of pics that he brought back to the states. He died before he could tell me about his service. I just found his discharge papers last mnth.
2007-01-20 18:59:32 · update #1
The reason i put New Guinea first is because that is how it is written on his papers.
2007-01-21 07:12:41 · update #2
The island is called New Guinea. The western half is Irian Jaya and is a province of Indonesia. The Germans owned the northern half of the rest (called New Guinea) while the British owned the southern part (called Papua). After WWI it became an Australian dependency and was administered and controlled by Australia. The division between Papua and New Guinea remained.
In 1975, the country was granted independence and the two parts united to form the country Papua New Guinea. The western half of the island remains Indonesian but there is a strong independence movement there.
2007-01-21 06:50:07 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Papua New Guinea is above Australia.
It is part of an island that is divided into two parts, New Guinea, which is controlled by Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, which is supposedly independent but is really controlled by Australia with some Indonesian interference.
My great-grandfather served in Papua as well, it was a good post to protect the pacific from the Japanese.
And like the guy above me said, those papers are worth a lot of money, especially if they bear the official sigil.
2007-01-20 19:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No on the two counts. New Zealand is an self sufficient u . s . a . occupying a collection of islands to the South East of Australia. Australia is the only u . s . a . interior the international that's additionally a continent. No different u . s . a . varieties area of that continent. you're in all probability puzzling continent with region. the two Australia and New Zealand are area of the Oceania region (which additionally encompasses an incredible many different islands of the South Pacific ocean). A continent is an somewhat super land mass. word: The island of latest Guinea (which contains areas of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) shares the comparable continental shelf as Australia yet is separated from it via the Torres Strait. as a result it is not area of the Australian continent. The Australian state of Tasmania is likewise no longer area of the Australian continent the two for the comparable reason. the two New Guinea and Tasmania are islands of their very own outstanding.
2016-12-16 09:38:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Papua New Guinea is a country situated immediately north of Australia. A lot of Australian soldiers served there during the war. It has the famous Kokoda Track (which has been a subject of a major film recently)
(Not a particularly good tourist destination even for Australians, although there are some places providing real rugged, wilderness experience for people who like that sort of things.)
http://www.pngtourism.org.pg/
and NO, it is NOT controlled by Australia.
2007-01-20 19:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Papua New Guinea is not in Australia and is not part of Australia but yes, it is located nearby Australia.
Papua New Guinea is the country very close to Irian Jaya (part of Indonesia), they are on the same big island.
The natives in Papua New Guinea has similarities to the Aborigines of Australia and to Irian Jayan people of Indonesia
2007-01-21 01:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by Kuchiki Rukia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that you all need to have a lesson in modern australian history.... Papua new guinea is a new country.
After being colonised by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia in 1975.
2007-01-21 00:50:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
PNG (Papua New Guinea) used to part of australia, they started to break away in 1973 and became fully in Independence in 1975, so in WW2 it would have been. Its directly north of queensland and part of the island called Irian Jaya. It is still part of the Commonwealth. the Japs and us had a battle in png so thats why he would have been there
2007-01-21 02:16:31 · answer #7 · answered by youcancontactmatthew 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is Papua New Guinea, there is a website you can check. Papua New Guinea is not part of Australia but it is close to each other
2007-01-21 06:39:55 · answer #8 · answered by trykindness 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if there are any registered letters from papua they are worth a fair bit ,just so you know ,the registered sticker ,if its the right one is worth thousands on the letter.
your previous respondant is right it sits abouve australia , its not part of australia ,but our finger prints are all over it.
think we forced then to become indipendant a while back ,thier govt been struggling ever since ,lots of mining and deforrestation ,loggers ripping off the vilagers by giving the chief a few bucks.
2007-01-20 18:45:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its an island in the pacific ocean north east of Australia
2007-01-20 18:34:02 · answer #10 · answered by Stephen D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋